Congratulations to Savannah Roberts, RN for winning the DAISY award at CRMH for August 2023!

The DAISY Award was established to recognize hard-working and dedicated  nurses for performing their duties with care and compassion in their service to our patients and families here at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.  Please take a moment to read Savannah's story below. 

Savannah and I had a patient who had severe postpartum preeclampsia and was allergic to one of the medications we use to treat this condition. She had a long run of severe blood pressures which were not responding to the other medications that we could use, to the point at which we had used every medication available to us. The patient's baby was across the room under a lighted blanket for high bilirubin, and Savannah astutely noted that perhaps it was stressful to the patient to not be able to comfort her baby. She moved the baby closer to the patient so she could hold her baby, and her blood pressures nearly immediately decreased to a non-severe range. This greatly impacted the patient's care because the next step would have been to transfer her to a PCU or ICU floor for a continuous drip of blood pressure medications. Great job, Savannah!